Line Lead I - HSL (Night Shift)

Bowman Andros Products; Mount Jackson (VA); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bowman Andros Products seeks a Line Lead to oversee packaging lines, ensuring smooth production and quick response to quality issues. You will train line workers, manage break coverage, and coordinate with maintenance and QA to resolve problems.

The role requires keeping line run efficiency high and waste low while maintaining safety standards. Responsibilities include setting up equipment, monitoring changeovers, and ensuring accurate packaging and weights at process points.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Ability to train packers, stackers and machine operators.
• Ability to identify safety warnings and operate packaging equipment safely.
• Must work in a fast-paced environment and be a team player.

Responsibilities

• Oversee line activities to ensure smooth and efficient production.
• Review daily plans and ensure employees understand requirements.
• Verify line progress and address quality or safety issues with teams.
• Ensure staff training and provide support for breaks and line readiness.
• Perform line change-overs and prepare line for next shift.
• Calculate waste and run efficiencies and report findings.
• Prepare bulk pack, load/unload materials, and maintain packaging lines.

Skills

Effective communication

Team player

Lean manufacturing

Safety awareness

Reliability / attendance

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Tools

Packaging machines

Hot glue gun

Non-Powered Pallet Jack

Job description

Job Summary

The HSL Line Lead primarily serves as the first level of oversight for production workers. The Line Lead oversees the activities of the line, reviews planned work and ensures that employees are aware, makes supervisors aware of any quality and safety issues that arise, and ensures that employees are trained adequately. The HSL Lead’s role is to ensure continuous smooth and efficient production for their assigned HSL Plant Lines. The HSL Lead is responsible for assisting and relieving all workers on their assigned lines for breaks, lunches, vacations, and as needed. As such, the HSL Lead’s responsibilities and knowledge must encompass all job duties and functions of each position’s job descriptions, and all requirements thereby. The HSL Lead is responsible for ensuring efficient line performance, including but not limited to: understanding control logic, set-up of all equipment and auxiliaries, line start readiness, cleaning and inspections for machine readiness, understanding product specifications, preventative maintenance, and training of employees. Measures of line performance include running efficiency (time for change-overs, run speed and unplanned downtime), waste, labor utilization, and conformance to product quality controls.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Oversee the activities of the line ensuring that production runs smoothly and efficiently.
• Review planned work for the day and ensure that employees are aware of requirements.
• Verify that the line is moving as planned and stop the line for any quality or safety issues that may arise. Work with Quality, Maintenance, and the Production Supervisor to ensure that problems are corrected.
• Responsible for ensuring that line workers are adequately trained. Alert Production Supervisor and Technical Trainer to any training issues that may need to be addressed.
• Responsible for line lead cleanup and preparation of the line for the next shift.
• Ensure that adequate coverage is available for employee breaks.
• Determines machine speeds and number of forming stations needed for continuous product flow, avoiding jams, stop-starts and allowing for manual pack.
• Calculates and reports waste, to include quantity, cause and methods for correction.
• Calculates and reports run efficiencies, identifying cause and correction for efficiency less than budget.
• Performs line change-overs; end‑of‑production run tasks, packing bulk pouches, returning bulk pouches and/or packaging to inventory line clearance machine set‑up, conveyor set‑up, material staging, etc., and perform root cause analysis with the production team in the event of non‑conforming product.
• Sets‑up and carries out bulk pouch pack‑out.
• Checks pouch weights at filler, pack and case process points, ensuring they meet Customer Specifications.
• Establishes online inspections with the packaging crew when quality issues are detected.
• Identifies, replaces and maintains minor machine parts and wiring as needed for all packaging machines.
• Properly lubricates according to type and method at each required lubrication point for all packaging

machines.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Must possess and successfully demonstrate all the qualifications and functions as listed in the Packaging Machine Operator Job Description.
• Ability to identify all machine and work center stop buttons, machine guards, hoods, doors and safety warnings, among other items, to ensure safety and efficient operation of the packaging machines.
• Ability to train all packers, stackers and machine operators in the efficient and successful execution of their duties and functions.
• Basic knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles strongly preferred, including but not limited to 5S.
• Regular and reliable attendance required.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced environment where priorities change quickly.
• Willing to work as part of a team.
• Engages fully in resolving issues with equipment and improving line efficiencies.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) must be worn at all times in the Production Area.
• Must be able to communicate with all levels of management and maintenance.
• Safe use of a hot glue gun, sharp instruments, and Non‑Powered Pallet Jack.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an associate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The HSL Lead is required to work on the production floor. While performing the duties of this job, the associate frequently will be exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and extreme heat and/or cold. The associate continuously works near moving mechanical parts. The associate will be exposed to loud noises from production equipment and thus will be required to wear PPE. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, but may be high at times due to production and mechanical equipment noise.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be performed by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to handle or feel objects, reach with hands and arms; see, talk and /or hear. The associate is required to stand for up to a 12 hour period (with breaks).

The associate will regularly need to lift up to 50 pounds, and occasionally push or pull up to 70 pounds.

This description is intended to indicate the kinds of tasks and levels of work difficulty that will be required of positions that will be given this title and shall not be construed as declaring what the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position shall be. It is not intended to limit or in any way modify the right of any supervisor to assign, direct, and control the work of associates under his/her supervision. The use of a particular expression or illustration describing duties shall not be held to exclude other duties not mentioned that are of similar kind or level of difficulty.